Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Numerous individuals alleged to be members of Google’s management team have been caught bragging about forming blacklists to impact the careers of colleagues with different political beliefs.
In a series of screenshots from 2015 onwards provided to Breitbart News by a verified Google employee, individuals described as left-wing Google management employees can be seen discussing the ways they punish their colleagues both inside and out of the company.

“While Google appears to be doing very little to quell the hostile voices that exists inside the company, I want those hostile voices to know: I will never, ever hire hire/transfer you onto my team. Ever. I don’t care if you are perfect fit of technically excellent or whatever,” declared former employee Adam Fletcher in a post on Google’s internal, staff-only Google+ network: “Internal Plus.” “I will actively not work with you, even to the point where your team or product is impacted by this decision. I’ll communicate why to your manager if it comes up.”

“You’re being blacklisted by people at companies outside of Google,” he continued. “You might not have been aware of this, but people know, people talk. There are always social consequences.”

Nothing new to readers here, but Breitbart has considerably more reach than I do. However, Allum Bokhari's interview with a rebel Googler, "Hal", is illuminating:

Hal: Witch hunts are a well-known cultural problem at Google. The company is currently facing a Federal complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board in April for interfering with employees’ legal right to discuss “workplace diversity and social justice initiatives.” The complaint alleges that Senior Vice President Urs Holzle and numerous managers in his organization actively stoked up witch hunts in 2015 and 2016 intended to muzzle low-level employees who raised concerns about the company’s practices. The trial is set for November.

Several managers have openly admitted to keeping blacklists of the employees in question, and preventing them from seeking work at other companies. There have been numerous cases in which social justice activists coordinated attempts to sabotage other employees’ performance reviews for expressing a different opinion. These have been raised to the Senior VP level, with no action taken whatsoever.

Allum Bokhari: What’s it like to work in such an environment? Do you think it damages employee output?

Hal: A lot of social justice activists essentially spend all day fighting the culture war, and get nothing done. The company has made it a point to hire more people like this. The diversity gospel has been woven into nearly everything the company does, to the point where senior leaders focus on diversity first and technology second. The companywide “Google Insider” emails used to talk about cool new tech, but now they’re entirely about social justice initiatives. Likewise, the weekly all-hands “TGIF” meetings used to focus on tech, but now they’re split about 50/50 between tech and identity politics signaling.

For conservative employees, this is obviously demoralizing, but it is also dangerous. Several have been driven out of the company or fired outright for sharing a dissenting view. Others have had their promotions denied or suffered other forms of deniable retaliation. Most of us just keep our heads down because we can’t afford to lose our jobs.

Feels like another example of gamma rage. In this case a person with minimal amount of personal power - line/team manager, goes off on a power trip, threatening that "you will never work in this town again" .... This is bat-$hit crazy.

It is kind of sad that I can remember a time when the Left would actually pretend to be civil and willing to have discourse. That was thirty years ago however, and I think those willing to do so have been purged or forced to toe the line these days.

[[“While Google appears to be doing very little to quell the hostile voices that exists inside the company, I want those hostile voices to know: I will never, ever hire hire/transfer you onto my team. Ever. I don’t care if you are perfect fit of technically excellent or whatever,” declared former employee Adam Fletcher in a post on Google’s internal, staff-only Google+ network: “Internal Plus.” “I will actively not work with you, even to the point where your team or product is impacted by this decision. I’ll communicate why to your manager if it comes up.”]]

I just had an epiphany.

Years ago I would go to libertarian meetings and they would say beware how companies were and are pervasively and actively being sunk by far-leftist/SJW/commie sabotage which result is then being blamed on evil capitalism to fan public disgust and expand their bureaucratic powers. I resisted that thinking who would deliberately sink their livelihood.

Things feel as if they're rapidly coming to a head. The system-wide social disenfranchisement of 20-30% of the US population cannot continue unabated without consequences. The middle ground is being hacked away at a such a pace that at this rate the 2018 mid-terms will almost invariably take place in the context of some kind of civil unrest. In Portland this week we have leftists violently attacking Alt-Lite rally-goers as "Nazis" while the police stand by doing nothing. You have the ideological purge and intimidation campaign at Google (and all over the tech/corporate world) with white men relentlessly harried and hounded into silence or out of their jobs. We have Air BnB blatantly cancelling accounts of customers who plan on attending the Unite the Right Rally. (How long before the Establishment begins using its antifa cutouts to make demands of utility companies to cut off power to racists' homes?) The Rally itself just had its permit cancelled and the black-supremacist Charlottesville government is attempting to force the protest to take place in a "kill box" where the protesters can be surrounded by antifa terrorists while the police look on and prevent escape. This all has the potential to get out of hand. People will be armed at Charlottesville - with guns. I pray to God that the police do their damn jobs, but I have zero confidence. The only people who don't want violence at Charlottesville are the rally organizers and attendees. CVille is only a microcosm. This is all connected.

The 20-30% of the country that is unapologetically on the Right-wing/Trump side of things is being backed into several corners at once and given no way out, they are being forced to fight or submit. The choice they're being given - and please excuse my poor taste - is dildo or swastika with no in-between. Either they bend over and take it up the rear, or they resist under the banner of Trumpism/Alt Right, i.e., "racism", "sexism", "homophobia", and, of course, "Nazism".

"The company has made it a point to hire more people like this. The diversity gospel has been woven into nearly everything the company does, to the point where senior leaders focus on diversity first and technology second."

When I was reading all of this yesterday, one thing I thought was that, at some point, doesn't senior management finally realize what is going on, and say to themselves something like, "What are we doing here? We're essentially letting these nuts run the show, and if we let it continue, we're eventually going to drive all the valuable employees out of the company, and go out of business. We've gotta get these leeches the heck out of here before the whole company comes crumbling down."

@5 The Baizuo are a curious lot. I wonder what some of the "diverse" Google employees might think of this situation as well. As a black supporter of the Alt Right, I could share an encouraging anecdote or two.

Sometimes it seems like we get redpilled easier and earlier than others. Maybe because we aren't attacked for noticing or speaking in the same way as other folks.

Surely any number of people from a multitude of backgrounds can see the merit in Damore's writing.

Thomas wrote:When I was reading all of this yesterday, one thing I thought was that, at some point, doesn't senior management finally realize what is going on, and say to themselves something like, "What are we doing here? We're essentially letting these nuts run the show, and if we let it continue, we're eventually going to drive all the valuable employees out of the company, and go out of business. We've gotta get these leeches the heck out of here before the whole company comes crumbling down."Senior management is full on indoctrinated in the diversity cargo cult. Hell, they're the ones pushing it from the top down. It's not a grass-roots cargo cult.

When the downturn hits Google, they can disband HR and "outsource" it to their newest AI, Google HR (tm). With the added benefit that this AI, like all the ones we read about, have...ahem...realistic views on subjects near and dear to SJW hearts (if they even exists). If you can't use it without being triggered, you can't get hired.

It's so amazing to watch this. Google is like a house of cards and all it took was one memo daring to mention that boys and girls are different to send the company into a shrieking, firing, executive-vacation cancelling, newsmaking, employee-alienating, customer-alienating frenzy.

And here we have employees publicly asserting that silencing political beliefs that differ from theirs is a much higher priority for them than serving customers or shareholders.

“I will actively not work with you, even to the point where your team or product is impacted by this decision."

It's just so amazing. If Google doesn't discipline employees who announce their intent to actively sabotage Google's business interests, then management and the board of directors will have to be replaced by professionals better able to run organizations and protect shareholder interests.

Lawyers: what is the legal plausibility of Trump using this as a pretext for nationalizing Google in the name of preserving the civil rights of it's employees? Obama nationalized at least one car maker within a few months of taking office. Civil rights are a huge thing.

I can't wait for the next internal Google memo from a rational employee. Here are a few ideas:

1. A rundown of all the quotes from managers promising to use political beliefs as a litmus test for hiring, promotions, refusals to cooperate on business projects, etc. compared to which of those managers get fired for publicly stating their intent to break laws and to sabotage Google's business interests.

2. A memo noting that half the country supports Trump and that it is not necessarily racist to vote Republican. (I would expect a similar SJW freakout: "I refuse to work with anyone who would hurt liberal feelings by suggesting that non-racist conservatives even exist."

Is it official Google policy that all employees must denounce President Trump? If an SJW at Google insists that Trump is "not her President" and a reasonable coworker says, "technically he is," should he be fired? Is even typing the phrase "President Trump" considered hostile speech at Google? Let's find out!

3. A memo noting that single mothers at Google deserve extra help because of the scientific findings that their children tend to have worse outcomes in education, incomes, mental health, etc. than the children of married parents. "No! Hate speech! I will NEVER cooperate with an employee who thinks 2 parents are better than one! I will sabotage their projects! I don't care if the Google stock price gets cut in half--everyone at this company MUST tell me I'm heroic."

It's so hilarious. The intellectual incoherence of progressivism causes it to implode on itself.

The Google SJWs insist that there ARE NO differences between men and women when it comes to coding skills, interest in coding jobs, or interest in tech exec jobs.

In essence, they are arguing that there is a plentiful supply of female tech talent. And that therefore female under-representation at Google is evidence of sexist bias in hiring. Whoops. They are making the government's case for it!

And now they are actively trying to discriminate against people with conservative opinions too!

Google is violating the civil rights of female coding applicants AND Republican Party members at the same time! Ouch. They'll be prosecuted no matter which party is in power.

I'm starting to wonder whether this Damore guy is more calculating than we imagine. The dude is super smart and a student of game theory - (one of his MIT papers was about modeling Red King Theory in parasitic relationships - basically he demonstrates that fast evolution is not always an evolutionary advantage - see the parallel?).

The manifesto appears to be written with future legal action in mind. And MIT math nerds can't resist a good gamble with a sizable statistical advantage and a huge potential payoff. In other words, he applied game theory, figured out that Google had no other play than to double down, and positioned himself to cash in big.

Also, he's a tech nerd with background in data mining. He HAD to know he'd be found out. The anonymous posting was obviously a gambit (which he guessed correctly that his managers would bite on).

I could be wrong, but my spidey senses tell me Damore is playing to win, and probably had mapped out victory before the game even began. Wouldn't be surprised to find out he read Vox's book and his analytical gambler's mind saw a 100% chance of predicting his opponent's behavior. Like playing chess with a five year old - one game, 50 million dollars, winner take all.

And if wins.... bye bye PC corp culture. Similar manifestos will be sprouting like mushrooms in a forest.

"California employees are entitled to special protections of their political rights under Labor Code Sections 1101 and 1102, which were passed in 1937. These provisions protect employees from being retaliated against, excluded from, or controlled by their employers with regard to the employees' political affiliations and actions. Section 1101 bars rules, regulations or policies that would forbid or prevent employees from engaging or participating in politics or from running for office. Section 1101 also prohibits companies from directing or controlling an employee's political activities and even from"tending" to do so. Section 1102 bars employers from coercing, influencing, or attempting to coerce or influence an employee's politics by threatening to fire the employee."

I'm starting to wonder whether this Damore guy is more calculating than we imagine. The dude is super smart and a student of game theory - (one of his MIT papers was about modeling Red King Theory in parasitic relationships - basically he demonstrates that fast evolution is not always an evolutionary advantage - see the parallel?).

The manifesto appears to be written with future legal action in mind. And MIT math nerds can't resist a good gamble with a sizable statistical advantage and a huge potential payoff. In other words, he applied game theory, figured out that Google had no other play than to double down, and positioned himself to cash in big.

How long before the Establishment begins using its antifa cutouts to make demands of utility companies to cut off power to racists' homes?-----at this point i'm puzzled that I haven't seen anyone push for explicit confiscation of savings/wealth of "racists". I'm surprised we haven't yet seen them drawing lists of "racist" patients who can't be admitted to hospitals because they'd make poc employees feel unsafe. When I see that I won't be surprised though.

Are we getting close to the tipping point? The Tweets from Minecraft guy give you that vibe:

“I hope you see how the google firing is deeply problematic. And the reason you pretend to hold on to opinions you know make no sense is because you’re afraid of that happening to you. Snap out of it.”

And reacting to the inevitable poop storm:

"No, I don’t stand for shit. Everybody just be free.But I stand AGAINST the exact kind of shame implication bullshit you’re doing right now."

"Google made some modest increases since its last diversity report. Women in tech roles rose 1 percentage point to 20% and in leadership positions rose 1 percentage point to 25%. Google increased the percentage of Hispanics to 4% from 3% and African Americans in non-technical roles increased to 5% from 4%. All other numbers were flat."

So clearly, next to Augusta Country Club, Google is the second-most sexist, racist place on earth.

Funny side note: wanna bet that the reason they give the percentage of blacks in "non-technical roles" is that the percentage in tech roles rounds down to 0%?

The oft-repeated story about tech firms being awash in cash tells us unequivocally that they don’t have good, promising ideas for projects.

The capital markets EXIST to place money in the hands of managers so they can expand profitable business. There's now so much (credit) money available to public corporations that they literally can't apply it.

This is yet another elephantine signal of how absurd are the times in which we live.

@53: I'd bet you're right. That essay was written to be inoffensive to anyone not determined to take offense. Very calm, very professional. Google going off the rails over it is an invitation to a massive lawsuit.

I'm betting Google will offer a 7-figure settlement by the end of the week. Which will be turned down. They'll have to go to 8 figures...or go to court.

Maybe it is just me, but i keep running across Adsense on more and more sites. It's not just Drudge, Finviz, or anything tied to a print media site anymore. Wordpress sites and even rather obscure little places now have adverts in some corner that slow down the loading time and often reload over and over, making reading painful. It's as if the online clickbaiters have doubled down in a very real sense. What could the reason be?

Google has also most likely violated the political viewpoint retaliation and whistleblower retaliation provisions of the California Labor Code. Frankly, the legal analysis on these state law points seems even stronger than the NLRB retaliation point that's been in the news.

Not holding my breath on seeing the rule of law vindicated or justice done, but this guy should at least make the attempt to file the claim publicly. If he can get in front of a jury who knows how they'll react?

@45 - I only heard of him for the first time less than a month ago, and I spend way too much time on the internet. Watched enough to think he's got a very keen sense of observation, and a great way of cutting to the core of an issue. His start is on an up-tick, meaning he's a target.

@57 - MSFT is largely converged, though maybe not quite as far as Google; I've not worked there in a long time. But they have lots of cash, a near-monopoly on the OS cash-cow, a huge lead in the Office software products, and a huge stable of other things that can potentially generate $$$. I live not far from Redmond, and know a lot more former microsofties than current. Went in for an interview there a while back, and it was very, very diverse. At this point, I'm only using legacy MSFT products, and plan on migrating to Linux bases stuff as much as possible for home use.

@53... Game theory, with near guaranteed victory? Psshh, yeah right. It says right here, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGt5LolUwAADfvO.jpg that he was blindsided and just an autist...oops, never mind, you win and so does he ;)

Lately I have been reading some John Grishim novels I never read.I swear that this whole Google thing could be one of his novels. I don't agree with his politics but he can sure write you some fiction.

google should be shamed into using only women of color (trans and cis) as engineers on their core product. that would prove once and for all that such people are every bit as good as the current group.

One really bizarre thing, to those of us who have been around a while, has been seeing people go from, "No, you can't have my email address! Spammers might get it!" to, "Here, entire world, have some timestamped pictures of my children playing at the park."

In a matter of a few years, the need for people (women) to validate themselves to others online just swamped the concerns about privacy that were reflected in pop culture like the movie The Net in 1995. Then, everyone repeated the line about how being on the Net meant people could know what you ate for breakfast. That fear just dissolved in the face of social media. And the funny thing is, now that it's almost true, hardly anyone cares anymore.

Damore is an Illinois native who graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2007, according to his Facebook page. As a child, Damore was a chess champion, earning the FIDE Master title, putting him in the >99th percentile, according to his CV. He won regional tournaments in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and finished second in the Nation Youth Action 2003 Chess Tournament. He was also the highest ranked player in the world in the video game Rise of Nations in 2004.

Things don't happen in a vacuum; The Memo is just the most recent - and now public - skirmish in the company about it. It looks like Demore filed an NLRB complaint, too, after seeing what is going on with this one already in progress.

@fop. Outstanding analysis. I love it. He knew what they would do, he knew that he would win, and he knew that he would shift the narrative in corporate America. Well done.

The Googlers collectively guaranteed Damore's huge settlement with their response to him. First, they violated his privacy by outing him as the author of the anonymous memo. Then the virtue-signalling managers issued memos to their teams PROVING that Damore faces a hostile work environment and announcing their intention to discriminate against him in terms of promotions, projects, and even willingness to collaborate with him as a co-worker. Some even made thinly veiled threats of VIOLENCE against him with their references to "punching Nazis." They all insisted in no uncertain terms that expression of "problematic" FACTS from biological science should be PUNISHED. The CEO himself issued a memo insisting that Damore's thoughts were "offensive and not okay." Then they FIRED the guy. Now evidence of internal conspiracies to discriminate against conservatives have leaked out.

What an absolute clusterf*ck for Google. SO much unwanted attention. And meanwhile they are already in trouble for actually NOT hiring enough women and people of color! LOL.

Corporate America is so completely pozzed that it can't NOT respond to truth-telling with rage-outs. The official policy of every Fortune 500 company is to discriminate against more qualified men in promotion decisions. Even questioning that is pretty much a firing offense. But Damore is about to get PAID. And then, as @fop says, these truth-telling memos will start sprouting like mushrooms in a forest. And corporations will realize that punishing their authors is expensive. Soon we'll be seeing sensitivity training forcing SJWs to respect conservative views.

Damore is a genius and a hero. But his target was actually surprisingly easy. The inherent contradictions in progressivism make it unstable.

SJWs literally WORSHIP these two conflicting points:1) "We must lower standards so we can hire and promote more women and minorities." 2) "Women and minorities meet the highest standards." Which is it?! LOL.

How can the left argue kaepernick with a straight face? It's ok to fire people for being politically incorrect at Google but in the case of Kaepernick, the NFL must hire him due to his political stunts that actually caused harm to the NFL's business?

@76One really bizarre thing, to those of us who have been around a while, has been seeing people go from, "No, you can't have my email address! Spammers might get it!" to, "Here, entire world, have some timestamped pictures of my children playing at the park."

Timestamped with GPS coords embedded for extra openness. Just like every bathroom selfie. The difference is obvious, handing out an email before social media didn't come with any free vanity points attached.

Faceberging the kids at the park with their Underarmour on while Mommy stands by with her Prada bag? Priceless.

The Googlers collectively guaranteed Damore's huge settlement with their response to him.

True, but to the limited extent that they're able to connect cause and effect, they will consider any amount paid (out of someone else's wallet) to be well worth the satisfaction they had at his firing.

Also, they will think (but probably not say on Google's internal network) that whatever this costs Google is simply justice for hiring such a hateful badthinker in the first place. Maybe some of them will even sue for the emotional distress Google caused them by allowing this to happen.

As VD has noticed, they're not truly anti-religious (note the recent defenestration of fellow-SJW Dick-Dawk over his less than obsequious remarks about Moohamed's religion). They have their own religion - one with many skins. It's one religion in particular which is hated, so much so that it's an idée fixe for them.

Thus you see feminists and (((Talmudists))) supporting the importation of an army of Musloid rapefugees. We see (((Talmudists))) line up to support (((Soros))), a traitor whose fondest youthful memories are helping the Nazis loot his tribesmen. You see alleged Marxists supporting massive monopolies like Google, Faceberg, Apple. You see SJWs switch back and forth between Randian libertardianism (when it favors their side) and open totalitarianism (when it favors their side). The ardent proponents of equality über alles are very much like Orwell's Napoleon the Pig when it comes to living up to their own alleged principles (some of us are more equal than others).

Conservatives have been clucking about the "hypocrisy" for decades, but when you finally realize what their real religion is all about, there's no hypocrisy at all. It only appears to be so because idiot conservatives refuse to comprehend that the SJW has a very different core value set and worships an altogether different spirit.

The Googlers collectively guaranteed Damore's huge settlement with their response to him. First, they violated his privacy by outing him as the author of the anonymous memo. Then the virtue-signalling managers issued memos to their teams PROVING that Damore faces a hostile work environment and announcing their intention to discriminate against him in terms of promotions, projects, and even willingness to collaborate with him as a co-worker. Some even made thinly veiled threats of VIOLENCE against him with their references to "punching Nazis.

The funniest part is they are the ones who built a corporate employee only social media platform. They were practically begging for reams of evidence against themselves to be compiled in writing. I hope Damore's lawyers are swift in filling the lawsuit and getting hold orders written. Google even now is likely working overtime to try and purge the likely thousands of posts by their employees on that platform that display a clear hostile work environment. They fostered this environment by doing nothing when these wack jobs first posted something about punching Nazi's or intolerance for the right. Their employees started to feel like they were posting on facebook or twitter where they could freely express their political hatreds without repercussions.

Even now it sounds like their HR and legal departments are so inept that they have failed to instruct internal IT to shut down google+. The plug should have been pulled as his NRLB complaint was filed. Instead they are still allowing their employees to post tirades which will later be carefully curated to paint a nasty picture for the court.

If Google wins this, then they will have set a precedent for being fired for unapproved politics.

They will have legalized firing Democrats and SJWs"

@84 Aaron Swenson"Seems like a win/win. Either he sues and wins big, or loses and sets the precedent that right leaning employers can shitcan their shitlib employees for whatever reason suits their fancy."

@85 Aaron Swenson"Well Xir's blue hair was a Code of Conduct violation so Xir's no longer working here"

Looks like some projection going on here. The automatic assumption that ethical (and legal) rules must be universalizable is not itself universal, but very much a right wing (and WEIRD) worldview.http://www.acronymfinder.com/Western%2c-Educated%2c-Industrialized%2c-Rich-and-Democratic-(anthropology)-(WEIRD).html

For leftists (and most non-Western ethnic/ racial groups, especially the Tribe), the primary "ethical rule" is "who, whom." This rule is inevitably extended to legal interpretations as well.

Another way to frame it is via Sam Francis' concept of "anarcho-tyranny."

This is a perfect example of why the alt-lite will simply not succeed. Google and their SJW's just scalped a guy who published a bunch of words that are far more tame and than anything Milo has ever said. A "commitment to reason and evidence" means nothing when you're fighting a religious battle.

@104, that's a good point. Plus, how many in the Alt-Lite would read his manifesto and say, "Most of this is really good, but this part here about biological differences.... I just don't feel right about that. I don't think I can support this."

During the movie Alamo, a drunk Chill Wills is waving a huge torch over an open barrel of gunpowder. What does John Wayne say? "Stand back and stand still!"

Of course, I believe Chill Wills would do the same thing, even if he were not drunk, because he is reckless and not quite bright enough to see the danger on his own.

That is what the radical and militant SJWs are doing, waving a flaming torch over an open barrel of gunpowder...to get a better look-see. If they are unaware how reckless and irresponsible their fun might be, then they will be surprised by what follows. Something tells me, they will not be surprised in the least.

So those of us who do not want the entire place blown to bits say...."Stand back and stand still!"

If Google wins this, then they will have set a precedent for being fired for unapproved politics.

They will have legalized firing Democrats and SJWs.

Recovering alcoholics who join AA are encouraged to adopt the motto..."One Day At A Time". It really seems to be the motto of the radicals and militants who are SJWs. They have no past, only today. It does not matter what they did or said even yesterday, NOW is all that matters. The future? Don't worry about that. It can only be a bright and shiny Utopia, because it is inevitable and unavoidable, where everyone is as crazy as we are. So the past is whatever we need it to be and all that matters is the present. They manage to muddle through without shame because the past is a matter of opinion. There is no Truth and there are no Facts....and we SJWs are always going to do what makes us feel good right now.

Precedent means nothing to SJWs and they feel no obligation to be consistent in their philosophy. They can be racist and pro-black every day of the week and burn whites at the stake anytime they are pro-white.

They see no Trap because do not see evil or reckless precedent as creating any obligation on the future, but the right-wing most certainly does. The right-wing values Truth, and Consistency, and Fairness, and the Rule of Law. The SJWs will forget whatever is inconvenient, but the right-wing will remember everything.

@CarpeOro,It is kind of sad that I can remember a time when the Left would actually pretend to be civil and willing to have discourse.It's like Islam, it only plays nice when it's at a disadvantage. Once it's in charge, the beheadings will commence.

It is kind of sad that I can remember a time when the Left would actually pretend to be civil and willing to have discourse.

We had a discussion a couple years back about whether the Left was ever truly committed to free speech (in the colloquial sense that people normally use the term; not the strict legal one). Some argued that the Left really did believe in those freedoms, but had allowed other ideological goals to override them (or something; I don't remember that argument very well). Others said the Left had mercenarily latched onto the First Amendment as a weapon, but always would have squelched dissenting opinions if they'd had the power.

@104. Cail CorishevPlus, how many in the Alt-Lite would read his manifesto and say, "Most of this is really good, but this part here about biological differences.... I just don't feel right about that. I don't think I can support this."

Almost none of them. I'd consider T_D on reddit to be pretty dang Alt-Lite and I've yet to see someone who wasn't behind everything this guy said 100%.

The key difference is if they take what he said about biological differences and followed it to some of the more uncomfortable logical conclusion. Then, they would start being a little uncomfortable.

“I will actively not work with you, even to the point where your team or product is impacted by this decision. I’ll communicate why to your manager if it comes up.”

I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me there's something called "fiduciary duty," in which persons in management positions are legally obligated to act in the best financial interests of the firm and the stockholders, short of violating the law. If I have interpreted it incorrectly I invite more information from those in the know.

I have this mental image of a massive class-action lawsuit by Google stockholders demanding a purge of managers at Google who are not carrying out their fiduciary duty, and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

You mean, what can a Federal agency do to punish retaliation against whistle-blowers? Pretty much anything short of the death penalty, usually. Retaliation for making labor complaints is generally at least a misdemeanor, could be felony.

I'm one of those people who believes that, no matter what, this country is heading toward a bloody division. Frankly, I'd rather it just go ahead and get there, so we can get through it, rather than have years more of festering. I know there's a large swath of folks who disagree, and think we can work past this, but I really don't believe that, at all. Maybe they're right, I just can't see it.

That is the puzzle piece I was missing, if you're correct. Reminds me of Brett Weinstein from Evergreen College. Certain "white" people are realizing they no longer have minority type status within the coalition of the Ascendant and the IQs to do something about it. Let the games begin!

Still, though, since we now have managers at Google going on record--records just made public, no less--boasting gleefully about their willingness to sabotage projects at the company in a manner that has the potential to affect Google's bottom line, would it then be appropriate to say that Google's CEO, one Sundar Pichai, has a fiduciary duty to the stockholders to relieve these individuals of their duties and replace them with persons who have, at a bare minimum, not boasted publicly of sabotaging their own employer?

My bet is Google will prevail in court.A) They have unlimited (((funds))) for (((lawyers))) B) The courts are all controlled by leftists...all the California courts, all the federal courts in California (think 9th circuit) and all the way up to the US Supreme Court.Remember, they don't care what the law says, or what the facts of any particular case are.

See: https://archive.is/VlNfl#selection-419.14-419.224 scientists (3 male, 1 female) all assert that the Google memo was accurate and non-problematic from a scientific perspective.

"The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right...In the case of personality traits, evidence that men and women may have different average levels of certain traits is rather strong...Among commentators who claim the memo’s empirical facts are wrong, I haven’t read a single one who understand sexual selection theory, animal behavior, and sex differences research...Within the field of neuroscience, sex differences between women and men—when it comes to brain structure and function and associated differences in personality and occupational preferences—are understood to be true, because the evidence for them (thousands of studies) is strong. This is not information that’s considered controversial or up for debate; if you tried to argue otherwise, or for purely social influences, you’d be laughed at."

SigOther wrote:Fiduciary duties are generally only for officers (CEO, president, cfo...or directors), not just your average mid-level managers or supervisors.But the directors have a fiduciary responsibility to control or remove employees who impede the company's mission.

The Federal Government isn't going to take any action against Google. If anyone tries anything all Google has to do is go to them and remind them that they have their entire search history and will use it against them if necessary. If they don't have enough increminating information I'm sure Facebook and any other Tech company will be more than willing to offer help.

128 Zeroh Tollrants wrote:I'm one of those people who believes that, no matter what, this country is heading toward a bloody division. Frankly, I'd rather it just go ahead and get there, so we can get through it, rather than have years more of festering. I know there's a large swath of folks who disagree, and think we can work past this, but I really don't believe that, at all. Maybe they're right, I just can't see it.

I think we have all seen movies with this point....like "Independence Day"....where we try to resolve matters through negotiation only to find out that the only thing your enemy wants is YOU DEAD.

How would it be possible to resolve our differences with the militant and radical SJWs, when every day they demand our civilization burned to the ground and our heads on pikes? They have made it abundantly clear that they intend to drive all of us out of work, out of business, out of our homes, out of the public square, out of print, and off the internet entirely. They do not leave us with any choice other than surrender (for summary execution) or fight.

Folks, I've been a shareholder of Google stock since the first quarter 2015. It has done very well for me. Maybe I should contact some people to seek a class action lawsuit by shareholders against Google?

Everyone knows that Breitbart was founded by the Imperial Japanese Kempetai in collusion with the Masons and the Illuminati as preparation for the invasion of the Pacific Northwest. So it's a sensitive topic, obviously.

Goy liberals are religious wackjobs . They're the descendants of John Brown and the like. They claim to be atheists because they think it's fashionable and they lack self awareness. Genuine atheists were people like Stalin and Honecker and their followers...actual atheists don't give a fuck if you honor the 'dignity' of victim identity groups. Only religious cranks do so.